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The Solana network’s economic activity contracted for the second consecutive quarter. Solana witnessed a notable economic slowdown as its active addresses took a plunge of 30% and operational efficiency collapsed by over 40% in the third quarter of the year. But data suggest that the network’s stablecoin activity came to the rescue. Solana’s Network Health Q3 Economic activity on the Solana network declined for the second consecutive quarter, according to The SOL Report Q3 2025 by The DeFi Report. The study revealed a broad contraction in on-chain fundamentals, with Real Economic Value (REV) dropping 18% quarter-over-quarter to $222.7 million…

United States President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he is meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Seoul, Korea, slated to begin on October 31.“We’re going to meet in a couple of weeks. We’re going to meet in South Korea, with president Xi and other people, too,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, following a de-escalation of trade tensions between China and the US. Trump said on Sunday:“[Xi Jinping] is a very strong leader, a very amazing man. You can look at what he’s done, where he is in his life.…

Ethereum ETH$3,980.18 emerged as the frontrunner in crypto’s third-quarter recovery, leaving bitcoin BTC$108,945.45 behind as capital flowed into altcoins, DeFi protocols, and a new wave of tokenized assets, a report by CoinCecko found.The broader market added over half a trillion dollars in value, its second straight quarter of meaningful growth, but this time, it wasn’t bitcoin leading the charge. Instead, investors looked to ethereum ETH$3,980.18 and other large-cap tokens to carry momentum forward, a report by CoinCecko found.At the start of July, it looked like bitcoin would again set the pace. Its price hit new highs early in the quarter,…

The price of Ethereum appears to be recovering nicely over the weekend after a period of investor uncertainty. The “king of altcoins”, following what looked like an aggressive return above the $4,200 level earlier this week, is now lagging under the psychological $4,000 mark. While the Ethereum price has been building some positive momentum over the past day, the shadows of the October 10 downturn still seem to be weighing on investor sentiment. A market phenomenon known as the “Kimchi Premium” suggests a few tedious weeks ahead for the second-largest cryptocurrency. What Happened Last Time Kimchi Premium Saw A Similar…

An American retiree says more than $3 million in XRP vanished after he checked Ellipal’s mobile app on Oct. 15 and saw his balance gone, a discovery that spurred an on-chain tracing effort by pseudonymous analyst ZackXBT.CoinDesk has not independently verified the investor’s identity, balances, or the complete on-chain path. The account comes from several YouTube videos posted since Oct. 15, Ellipal’s public statement on Oct. 18, and ZackXBT’s Oct. 19 X thread.What the victim says happenedThe investor, who identified himself as Brandon, said he lives in North Carolina, is 54, and that his wife, 60, is also retired. He…

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty fell to 146.7 trillion on Friday as the network hashrate, the average of the total computing power dedicated to securing the decentralized protocol, hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion hashes per second.BTC mining difficulty is down by about 2.7% from the all-time high difficulty level of over 150.8 trillion reached during the previous adjustment period, according to CoinWarz.Bitcoin mining difficulty drops. Source: CryptoQuantHowever, network hashrate hit an all-time high on Tuesday, and remains elevated above 1.2 trillion, despite a small dip from Tuesday’s all-time high, data from CryptoQuant shows. CoinWarz also forecast:“The next…

U.S. government seizes record $14B Bitcoin connected to Chen Zhi’s massive human-trafficking and cryptocurrency fraud network. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to take control of about 127,000 BTC, worth around $14.2 billion. The Bitcoin fortune is tied to LuBian and Cambodia-based businessman Chen Zhi, who is the chairman of Prince Group. Record $14B Bitcoin Seizure Arkham shared via X that Zhi ran large-scale human-trafficking and pig-butchering schemes across Asia. This type of exploit involves victims being tricked into fake online relationships and then convinced to invest in phony cryptocurrency platforms. Once they…

A well-known crypto analyst is urging investors to rethink the old trade of gold for Bitcoin, calling current market signals a rare buying window. Related Reading According to CryptoQuant author Joao Wedson, a set of bottom signals in the BTC/Gold ratio are flashing, and that could mark a turning point in how the two assets move against each other. Rare Signals Point Toward Bitcoin Wedson’s chart shows two tags — one blue and one green — that line up with a normalized oscillator he says is at a low. According to him, the blue tag marks a bottom in the…

In brief Stablecoin behemoth Tether donated $250,000 to OpenSats this week, prompting Jack Dorsey to criticize the amount of the gift. Dorsey highlighted his own $21 million donation and drew mixed reactions from the Bitcoin community. Udi Wertheimer later called out Dorsey over his investment in Ocean, a Bitcoin mining pool that has attracted controversy. Sometimes it can be easier to say nothing at all. This week, stablecoin giant Tether announced a $250,000 donation to OpenSats to support Bitcoin developers—only for one of the world’s best-known programmers (and Bitcoin maximalists) to publicly chastise the size of the gift. Twitter co-founder and Square…

Key takeaways:Gold’s ongoing pullback could trigger Bitcoin’s rebound, according to multiple analysts.Rallying to $150,000–$165,000 by year’s end is still possible, based on technical analysis.Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of bottoming out as the rally by its analog rival, gold (XAU), is starting to look increasingly overextended. Bitcoin hints at “generational bottom” as gold dipsGold’s rally appears to have stalled after hitting an all-time high of around $4,380 per ounce on Friday, given it has dropped 2.90% ever since. Still, the precious metal was up by over 62.25% year-to-date.XAU/USD daily chart. Source: TradingViewIts daily relative strength index (RSI) readings have been…